The Twitter account of co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey was briefly suspended Tuesday night before being reinstated.
It is unclear why Mr. Dorsey’s account was suspended for about a half hour. When his account...
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It's now conventional wisdom that Twitter Inc. is badly in need of repair. Yet the company on Thursday turned in a not-bad earnings report card for the third quarter, with revenue that topped its own forecast and an...
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I recently came across a Reuters article titled "In insurance Big Data could lower rates for optimistic tweeters."
The title employs a common marketing rule. Frame bad news as good news. Instead of saying, Big data...
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Twitter is planning a big round of layoffs that could affect up to 8% of its staff, or 300 people, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources.
The layoffs come as the money-losing social networking company...
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Dick Costolo's next act after leaving Twitter is a group fitness startup called Chorus that's launching in beta this December.
The former Twitter CEO first teased the startup in January, and now a new profile of Costolo...
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He tweeted Saturday that all U.S. retailers, shops and restaurants that use Square (SQ) -- Dorsey's payment processing platform -- will be able to add a link to their customers' digital receipts to register to vote.
"We...
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The former CEO of Twitter has reacted angrily to a blistering report attacking the social network's failure to deal with trolling and harassment.
BuzzFeed's Charlie Warzel has published a deeply reported feature claiming...
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Twitter is stagnating.
The social network isn't growing, advertiser demand is falling, and the stock is crashing.
The ugly and endemic abuse on the platform has also been highlighted in recent weeks, with a torrent of...
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As CEO of both Twitter and Square, 18-hour days are regular occurrences for Jack Dorsey.
According to a 2015 Product Hunt Q&A, Dorsey keeps balanced by following a uniform schedule.
"I look to build a lot of...
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A website that monitored public figures' Twitter profiles for deleted tweets has been shut down by the social network.
Post Ghost, which only launched on July 6, acted as a kind of watchdog, tracking when certain users...
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Even the former CEO of Twitter isn't protected from the occasional security hack. Earlier this afternoon, three tweets were sent from Dick Costolo's account claiming to be from a group called OurMine.
The tweets have...
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Product chiefs at Twitter don't seem to last very long. In fact, the job has such a high turnover rate that it's been likened to the "jinxed" Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position in the Harry Potter series.
In...
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Shareholder meetings are usually sleepy affairs, punctuated by near-unanimous re-elections of boards of directors and arcane discussions on operating expenses and stock options.
But a funny thing happened at Twitter's...
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Recently, Leah Busque, the founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, a platform that connects consumers with freelance labor who take care of everyday errands or chores, announced she was stepping down from her role and Stacey...
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